Sunday, July 29, 2012

Bullshit the first, just two pages after this graphic, elderly retired cop James Gordon uses his firearm ("Of course I still carry it") to break up a riot, enforce order, organize a bucket brigade to save a burning building. Without Batman or his army of testosterone-ripped thugs.

Gordon as a character has always stood for doing the right thing, even if it wasn't popular, or legal. Fundamentally, he's just a guy, counterpoint to the looney-tune Bruce Wayne, an everyman, with a sense of duty.

As Gordon monologues, drawing his gun: "They start listening."

Bullshit the second, we don't live in a comic book. Batman is fantasy, not an instruction manual.

Self-defense is the first human right. Firearms enable the weak, the helpless, the everyman to exercise that fundamental right.

Bullshit the first, just two pages after this graphic, elderly retired cop James Gordon uses his firearm ("Of course I still carry it") to break up a riot, enforce order, organize a bucket brigade to save a burning building. Without Batman or his army of testosterone-ripped thugs.

Gordon as a character has always stood for doing the right thing, even if it wasn't popular, or legal. Fundamentally, he's just a guy, counterpoint to the looney-tune Bruce Wayne, an everyman, with a sense of duty.

As Gordon monologues, drawing his gun: "They start listening."

Bullshit the second, we don't live in a comic book. Batman is fantasy, not an instruction manual.

Self-defense is the first human right. Firearms enable the weak, the helpless, the everyman to exercise that fundamental right.